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Re:Don't Take VC Funding – It Will Destroy Your Company by yibg on Sunday July 09, 2023 @03:09PM (#36657814)
I think we also focus and celebrate too much the route of college drop out start up founders. For these cases yes some family wealth is definitely beneficial as a safety net.

But there are also plenty of people that have worked for a while, provided themselves a safety net and go on the startup journey in their 30s and 40s. Eg. Eric Yuan, who was a eng VP already before zoom.

But I guess those don’t grab the same headline attention.

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Re:Don't Take VC Funding – It Will Destroy Your Company by eastdakota on Monday July 10, 2023 @01:33AM (#36662481)
I was 34 when I started Cloudflare and had had every random job from bartender to LSAT test prep instructor to adjunct law professor. Eric, incidentally, is one of the kindest, most curious people I’ve had a pleasure to get to know on this journey. Feel lucky to call him a friend. Truly great guy.
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